Several conference sessions held on 22nd – 24th March 2016 brought together a panel of industrial experts from Purchasing Functions.

Alberto Buron, Senior Manager at CYLAD Consulting and Purchasing Expert, spoke about the various levers that enable optimization of purchasing performance mentioning leveraging existing data as an example. Emmanuel de Gastines and Olivier Paget, Partners at CYLAD Consulting, jointly hosted a workshop under the headline: ‘Big Data : How to make purchases smart in the digital world?’.

They offered advice on the digital transformation of purchasing, the associated use cases and available technology solutions.